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Current Projects

• Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection – Queensland Reef Water Quality Program Evaluation – with Eberhard Consulting,  Blue Sense Consulting and C2O Consulting
• West Gippsland CMA – Rainbow Creek Management Plan  with Blue Sense Consulting and Ian Rutherfurd
• Fitzroy Basin Association – MERI framework for Grazing Best Management Practice (BMP) reef project supporting Eberhard Consulting
• Corangamite CMA – INFFER assessments (1. Protecting Priority Threatened Species of the Corangamite Coast and 2. Protecting the Victorian Volcanic Plain)
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning – Review and assessment of selected waterway health project bids submitted by CMAs for EC4
• West Gippsland CMA – Project Planning, Design and Development –National Landcare Program 2 Cross Regional Alpine Peatlands Program with RMCG
• West Gippsland CMA – Project Planning, Design and Development –National Landcare Program Corner Inlet with Blue Sense Consulting
• Parks Victoria – Economic Return on Investment for Environmental Volunteering in Victoria
• North Central Catchment Management Authority – Climate change planning support
• Upper Campaspe Landcare Network – Strategic planning
• Commonwealth Government Department of Environment and Energy – INFFER analysis for Koala Conservation
• NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust) – Review of pricing for the Fixed Price Offer delivery mechanism.

Completed projects

2019

• Melbourne Water – INFFEWS Benefit:Cost Analysis Training and Capacity Building
• WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation – Revitalising Geographe Waterways (End of Program Evaluation) supporting Eberhard Consulting
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning & Port Phillip and Westernport CMA – French Island Feral Cat Eradication Feasibility and Cost-Effectiveness Assessment with John Parkes (Kurahaupo Consulting)
• Melbourne Water – Using health based targets to develop a catchment management optimisation program (CMOP), with Jacobs and SIP Advisory
• NRM North (Tasmania) – Eastern Barred Bandicoot INFFER Assessment
• Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and Victorian DELWP – Social values in bushfire management decision making (INFFER Project)
• Port Phillip and Westernport CMA – Protection and enhancement of Ramsar listed wetlands and priority coasts in the Port Phillip and Westernport region
  INFFER Assessment
• North East CMA – Embedding Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture, North East Victoria with support from Spatial Vision, Meridian Agriculture and Bridge Logic

2018

• Hunter Local Land Services (NSW) – Evaluation of the Hunter Local Land Services Land Management Grant Program
• Kilter Rural – Project opportunity scan
• NRM North (Tasmania) – INFFER Training and project development support
• NRM South (Tasmania) – INFFER project development support
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) – Investing in Integrated Catchment Management: development of principles
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) – Sunryasia Rejuvenation Project Final Evaluation Report
• West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority – supporting Blue Sense Consulting to evaluate the Indigenous Partnerships Program
• North Queensland Dry Tropics NRM (Qld) – Exploring new incentives – scoping and trialling incentives and institutional arrangements, as part of a consortium led by James Cook University
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning – Developing an overarching coordination framework for long-term water quality monitoring in the Port Phillip and WesternPort region – supporting Blue Sense Consulting
• North Central CMA – INFFER Project development
• Land Stewardship Centre Canada – Utilising INFFER as a Decision Support Tool for Agri-environmental Programming in Brazeau County, Alberta
• West Gippsland CMA – Lake Wellington Land and Water Management Plan Renewal (supporting Jacobs)
• Queensland Farmer Federation – evaluation framework advice
• North Central CMA – Sustainable Agriculture Program – Regenerative Farming Framework
• Landcare Australia & Mid North Coast Council (NSW) – INFFER Training and Support

2017

• Australian Government Reef Trust – Great Barrier Reef Agricultural Renewal Investment Fund for The Nature Conservancy and Kilter Rural
• Mount Alexander Shire Council – Land Management Rebate Program implementation support
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) – Rural Drainage Costs and Benefits to Agriculture (supporting Jacobs)
• Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) and West Gippsland CMA – Riparian Benefit Cost Scoring Tool with Blue Sense Consulting
• NSW Office of Environment and Heritage – Private Land Conservation Direct Offer project
• Melbourne Water – Source Water Catchment Protection (INFFER and CMIS)
• Port Phillip and WesternPort CMA – Ramsar Protection Program: French Island Feral Cat Eradication (INFFER Assessment)
• Waikato River Authority NZ – INFFER and project prioritisation support
• Australian Institute of Marine Science – INFFER analysis for Crown of Thorns Starfish outbreak control
• West Gippsland CMA – Perry River Integrated Catchment Management Project Development – in partnership with Blue Sense Consulting
• Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council Limited (AFAC) and Forest and Fire Management Group: National Burning Project (subproject 2)
  ‘Report on an analysis of the tools and methodologies available to balance competing objectives of burning programs and matching these to users’
• Melbourne Water –  Melbourne Water owned land – prioritisation framework (INFFER)
• Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning (Victoria) – Developing options for resourcing the ongoing management of fenced riparian land
• North Central CMA and Coliban Water – Integrated Catchment Management Plan for the Upper Coliban Catchment
• Connecting Country – Woodland bird INFFER analysis review
• North East CMA – North East Regional Catchment Strategy (Urban Landscape Condition Monitoring) – in partnership with Patten Bridge/Bridge Logic
• Mount Alexander Shire – Review of Land Management Rebate Program
• Harvey River Restoration Taskforce (WA) – INFFER Training

2016

• Kingborough Council (Tas) – Bruny Island Cat Control (INFFER analysis)
• Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Qld) – Costs of achieving the water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef (As part of a consortium led by Alluvium Consulting)
• NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (Office of Environment and Heritage) – Evaluation of the Enhanced Bushfire Management Program
• North East Catchment Management Authority – Landscape condition monitoring & reporting (with Patten Bridge/Bridge Logic)
• Burnett-Mary Regional Group (Qld) – Evaluation and Final Review (Reef Programme)
• North Central CMA – Review of Landcare/Community Grants Program
• NQ Dry Tropics – Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan (INFFER analysis)

2015

• Department of Environment/National Landcare Advisory Committee (NLAC) – Understanding and identifying the economic impacts of investment in the National Landcare Programme activities
• SEQ Catchments – Catchment Action Planning (INFFER analysis)
• North Central CMA – Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan
• West Gippsland CMA – Climate Change Planning support
• Department of Environment and Primary Industries (Vic) – Investigation of the cost-sharing and funding allocation approaches used in Victorian riparian management programs
• East Gippsland CMA – Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan

2014

• Burnett-Mary Regional Group – Water Quality Improvement Plan
• Burnett-Mary Regional Group – Climate Change Planning support
• West Gippsland CMA – Regional Waterway Strategy (planning support)
• Terrain NRM – Wet Tropics Water Quality Improvement Plan (INFFER analysis component)
• West Gippsland CMA – INFFER analysis for Gippsland Plains Grassy Woodlands and Alpine Peat-bogs (with RMCG)
• Corangamite CMA (on behalf of 7 Victorian CMAs) – NRM and Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (with Spatial Vision)

2013

• West Gippsland CMA – INFFER analysis for the Corner Inlet Ramsar site
• Land Stewardship Centre (Alberta, Canada) – INFFER analysis for threatened bird species (Sage Grouse)
• Northern Gulf NRM – INFFER training
• Department of Environment & Primary Industries – Development of a Waterway Benefit: Cost Scoring Tool
• West Gippsland CMA – Waterway prioritisation for Regional Waterway Strategy.
• North Central CMA – Waterway prioritisation for Regional Waterway Strategy.
• Corner Inlet Water Quality Improvement Plan – INFFER analysis and underpinning bio-economic modelling.
• Greening Australia QLD – Improving Gold Coast vegetation through seed supply
• INFFER analyses for the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority to assist development of Biodiversity Fund applications.
• INFFER assessment for conserving woodland birds in the Mount Alexander Shire in central Victoria for Connecting Country.
• Water quality assessment for the Bow River in Alberta in partnership with the Land Stewardship Centre of Canada.
• Development of application form and assessment methodology for the Living Victoria Fund – Office of Living Victoria.
• Asset identification and priority setting for the Western Australian Rangelands NRM Plan.

Evaluation of landholder adoption in NRM projects is crucial to design and implementation.